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• But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex; rather, we are talking about the mechanics of sex. Science has replaced religion as the authority; and science is a more formidable arbiter. Medicine knows how to scare even those who scoff at religion. Compared with a diagnosis, what's a mere sin? We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Art, Sex

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• The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.

  Seymour Hersh

  Fields, Open Minded, Debate

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The job of the critic, as it might have been conceived in the 1950's or 1960's, was some kind of role of moral arbiter for people, not a huge number of people, but people who were, you know, fairly educated, well-placed people.

  Louis Menand

  Jobs, Numbers, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

  David Corn

  Opinion, Moral

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a very bad National Security Adviser. The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates.

  Seymour Hersh

  Nice, Open Minded, Debate

  Source: progressive.org

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• History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

  Lord Acton

  Surveys, Controversy, Monarchs

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• Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

  Todd Solondz

  Art, Mean, Impact

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Community, Leader, Anything Goes

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.

  Simon Doonan

  Self, Inappropriate, Planets

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

  Seth Godin

  Fashion, Unexpected, Unexpected Places

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• Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Wisdom, Agents, May

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1860). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”

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• Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Tradition, Aspect, Rationality

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.225, Verso

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• Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the
  arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Islands, Race

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.169

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• The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Heart, Males

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

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• If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Should, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Kings, America, Terrorism

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013

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• Those who govern must see how the people react to administration. Ultimately, the people are the final arbiters.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  People, Finals, Administration

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966). “Shastri memorial souvenir”

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• Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

  John Milton

  Math, Umpires, Decision

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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• I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Thinking, Mature, Economic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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